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START YOUR OWN ONLINE BUSINESS WITHOUT INVESTMENT
Promote your existing business by bringing it online without investment!
Yes!!! Without Investment! or with a very little budget, you can start
your own online-business or promote your existing business by brining it
online. It is required that you must be educated and computer literate.
You can be a professional/expert in any field (it is not required that
you should be computer expert), a business person or a college student.
In the first few paragraph you will learn WHO CAN DO WHAT? and later you
will learn HOW CAN YOU START WITHOUT INVESTMENT?
If you are a professional/expert in any field, of course, you know
whatever you have learned. Suppose, you have a degree/diploma in Web
Engineering, you know how to develop a web site and its programming, you
can offer web development services to business owners who require your
services. If you have some experience or some existing clients, it will
be your PLUS point. Think... what can you do? what services you can
provide? Offer these services online. You can introduce yourself as a
web developer, software developer, hardware specialists, network
engineer, estate agent, teacher, instructor, doctor, lawyer, sales
promoter, accountant, engineer etc.
If you already have a business, you can promote it by bringing it
online. When your business will be online, that means whole world can
access your company details, what are you selling or what services you
are providing. Your business will be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
If you are a college student, in learning process, do not have expertise
in any field and does not any business, don't worry! You can still start
your own online business without investment. You can adopt following
options: (1) Internet Sales/Marketing: Sell someone's else products or
services. You can make a handsome commission by referring people to
their web site from yours. (2) Whatever you can do: Business persons
need people who can work for them. Think... what you know? Serve your
clients in as many ways as you can e.g. internet information search,
word processing, letter writing, sending, receiving emails etc. (3)
Offer FREE Services: Affiliate with web sites that offer free services
and also pay commission. e.g. Free email accounts [chek.com], get paid
programs [spedia.net] & [sendmoreinfo.com], newsletter according to
their interests [emazing.com] etc. Offer your visitors these free
services.
Now I will tell you how you can start or promote online business without
investment, step by step:
1) Get Free Email for Life from http://www.pcsoftweb.com/ to communicate
with your clients.
2) Get Ready made Web sites, FREE URL with FREE HOSTING from
http://www.geocities.com/, you can design web sites within a few minutes
with the help of wizards they provide. You can use
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ to get pre-designed Java-scripts/Java-
applets and use them to make your web site more attractive. Describe
your services and contact details. You can also check your site
statistics, no. of hits day by day, referrer, systems used to see your
site from www.geocities.com too. This does not required any designing,
programming experience.
3) Setup eStore, affiliate with web sites like http://www.amazon.com/
and put their links on your web site. If someone visits your site and
then goes to affiliated sites and make some purchases, you will be get
paid commissions.
4) Promote your web site for FREE! Submit your web site URL to 110
search engines by the help of http://www.submitplus.com/. Use proper
keywords and use META TAG in your index.htm file too. Submit all
important pages of your site, not only index.htm. Submit your company
details to biz directories too, like http://insideoffice.com/. Subscribe
and read articles from http://www.internet.com/ and
http://www.webpronews.com/ to know how you can promote your web site and
business.
5) eMarketing: Advertise by sending email to business persons. Include a
header or footer as "If you do not want to receive email ads please
reply with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line", do not send them email if
they do not want to receive. Offer FREE services to them. You can find
email addresses of business persons from biz directories, newspapers,
magazine etc. Also, try to read messages and reply that are familiar to
your site and in newsgroups like http://www.deja.com/ with a short
description of your site and URL.
6) Don't loose current visitors of your web site. If you want to see
your visitors back again and again use http://www.coolboard.com/ to
manage a community of people of familiar interests. You can also offer
your clients free email accounts for life with the help of
http://www.everyone.net/ and when your visitors will get email services
from your site, they will be back to check emails. If you need more
information regarding this topic or if you can suggest me any useful
idea, I am looking forward to you.
About the Author
Mr. Najam Aziz Ahmed
Ph. +92-21-5801744
Email: pcsoftweb@yahoo.com
Web Site: http://www.pcsoftweb.com